Nevada County picayune., 1887-09-15
EUROPEAN SLAVERY.
Common Sense Views from a
 Farmer.

slavery, saying that It ls Oelng gradually worked upon the people of the United States. And then in commenting on the alleged out. rages in Ottawa, Canada. iI is as. serted that if we do not follow the advice of the Dispatch, we will have to sell the virtue of our daughters and sisters for bread. This is what the Dispatch rp'lS the European plan of slavery. ltalso says that we must make laws to protect us, in competing with En- ropean panper labor.
 The people of Europe are not in slavery, on account of the scarcity of money nor are the different na- tions formed of paupers, bikes and gudgeons. Take Germany for in. stance, with her system of public schools: every child must go to school from the age of six 10 four. teen, and no ignorant paupers can be found. A country that has such institutions of learning, as there are at Heidelberg, Gottingen and many more such places, aud that produces such men of learn ing and science as FrOebel, Go' ethe, Schiller and Aggazzis, can not consist of bikes and gudgeOns, but of an intelligent, progressive people.
 The people of Europe and this country are in a better condition to day than they have ever been noticed lately that some labor organization wants to tax immigra' ton, when the. wealth of this coun- try is increased annually by the immigration of an intelligent and well.to.do class of people. Go to Iowa, Wisconsin and other oi these Northwestern states, and see what an intelligent and wealthy class of people they are composed of; you will also. find the majority of the population to consist of peo. pie of foreign birth. Go to the workshops and factories, and you will find many skilled wOrkmen employed, who immigrated from different European countries, the so.called land of bikes and gud' geons.
 The Dispatch has much to say about the virtne and prosperity oi ancient Sparta, and of her final downfall, and misery caused by a class of cOnspirators; says that we are on the same road to destruc. ton. Are we to judge the people of the last quarter of the nine teenth century, by the ignorant and supcrstitious people of ancient times? Let us look forward. What do we care for ancient Sparta Ol king Lycurgus with his iron mon cyl Let us grapple with present life issues. The Arkansas Dis patch is the official organ of the Agricultural Wheel, and we have been perusing the editorials and correspondence, but find not q line of agricultural matter in it's columns. BrOthet farmers, let us discuss the mode of agriculture in our county papers. We Can learn great deal from one another; take for instance the keeping of sweet potatoes; some people keep them without any trouble, while some cannot keep them at all, If some person who keeps sweet potatoes every year, would write and tell how he keeps them, it would help a great many inexperienced per sons. Cotton culture, the best and cheapest way to raise hogs and in fact everything pertaining to farming, should be discussed Let us make our county papers partly agricultural. Farming has ceased to pay" certain wheel committee declares, when the fact is farming has always paid only with a portion of the farmers. There are always some who do not manage we'll. The committee also gives the cause and remedies of the depressed condition of far. mers. When you take two short paragraphs out of the report, you have nothing left, except what has been chewed over and over again, by the Dispatch. Their best par agraph says that farmers must raise their supplies at home. l agree with them there, and to bet. ter accomplish that end, let each of us consider himself a committee of one. and study newer and bet.